Noah Kazis
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox.
Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.
Recent Posts
NYC Primaries: A Handful of Votes Will Shape Transpo Policy for Millions
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Primary day is tomorrow, which means one thing for livable streets advocates: You need to get out there and vote. Remember, whether it’s MTA financing or complete streets, bus lane cameras or smart growth, some of the biggest decisions about how New Yorkers get around will rest with the Albany-bound pols who win tomorrow. The open […]
Upper West Side’s CB 7 Wants To Pay For Sunday Parking
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According to a report in DNAinfo, Community Board 7 on the Upper West Side is taking the rare step of asking the city to end the giveaway of free curbside parking. The community board approved a resolution calling for paid Sunday parking in its meeting last night by a vote of 21 to 12, with […]
Eyes on the Street: 28th Precinct Loves the St. Nicholas Ave Bike Lane
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If you get around on a bicycle in Upper Manhattan, the St. Nicholas Avenue bike lanes are essential. They’re the only on-street lanes in the borough between 120th Street and 160th Street. Many cyclists don’t even bother with the lanes, though, because they’re routinely filled with parked cars. Normally one might ask the NYPD to […]
Support for Congestion Pricing, Not Harlem River Tolls, at SD 31 Debate
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Five candidates vying to become Upper Manhattan’s next state senator met in the 168th Street Armory last night to make their case to the car-free voters of Riverdale, Inwood, Washington Heights, West Harlem, and the Upper West Side. At a debate sponsored by Transportation Alternatives and WE ACT for Environmental Justice, important differences emerged over […]
Sanitation Department Spares Ghost Bikes From Trash Heap
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The Department of Sanitation has backed off its controversial plan to remove ghost bikes from the streets of New York, relenting to a public outcry in favor of the memorials to cyclists killed while riding. Proposed rules governing the removal of derelict bicycles released in June would have taken away even the best-maintained memorials, but […]
This Week: Upper Manhattan Candidates Debate Transportation
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Labor Day and the Jewish high holidays make this an abbreviated week, but with the critical primary elections just seven days away, the state’s political world is going full-tilt. Tonight, at least three of the four candidates running to replace Eric Schneiderman in the State Senate will meet at a debate co-sponsored by Transportation Alternatives, […]
Report: Investing in Transit Could Create 180,000 Jobs, for Free
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Between calls for renewed stimulus on the one hand and for deficit reduction on the other, Washington, D.C. is stuck. A new report by the Transportation Equity Network, however, shows one easy way out of that political stalemate: shifting our transportation spending to transit. According to the report, written by University of Missouri-St. Louis researchers […]
Without Espada or Challenger Rivera, District 33 Debates Transportation
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Last night’s 33rd Senate District transportation debate pitted two candidates against each other who are unlikely to ever appear on the same ballot: Democrat Daniel Padernacht and Green John Reynolds. Padernacht is running a distant third place in polling for the September 14 primary, after incumbent Pedro Espada Jr. and challenger Gustavo Rivera. Neither Espada […]
Paterson Signs Smart Growth Act; Now Comes the Hard Part
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Governor David Paterson announced Tuesday that he had signed Assembly Member Sam Hoyt’s Smart Growth Infrastructure Public Policy Act, making it the law of the land that all state infrastructure spending must comply with a set of smart growth principles, including fostering compact, mixed-use development and reducing dependence on the automobile. Paterson’s approval has been […]
Stringer: 1,800 Parking Spots Too Many For Riverside Center; 1,100 Okay
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Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer approved one block’s worth of underground parking for Riverside Center, but not two. Image: Extell Development Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer released his recommendations for the Riverside Center megaproject yesterday afternoon. Like Community Board 7, he doesn’t approve of Extell Development’s request to build more than 1,800 underground parking spaces […]
Will Westchester Replace Richard Brodsky With a Better Voice for Transit?
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Westchester Democrat Richard Brodsky is running for Attorney General this fall, leaving the seat of congestion pricing’s leading opponent open. Will his successor take up Brodsky’s anti-transit mantle or prove to better represent the environmental values on which Brodsky is now running for AG? We spoke with the three candidates vying to replace Brodsky in […]
Eyes on the Street: SUV Flips Across Houston Street Median
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The driver of this wrecked SUV had been traveling on the other side of on Houston Street before flipping over the median, according to the tipster who sent this photo. A tipster sends this photo of Houston Street near the corner of Mott, early yesterday morning at around 5:00 a.m. Our source says he was […]